American Chinese may refer to:
- Sino-American relations, the relations between mainland China and the United States
- Chinese American, US citizens/residents of Chinese origin or descent
- American-born Chinese, a subset of the above category
- Chinese American cuisine, Chinese cuisine developed by Chinese immigrants to the United States
- Americans in China, especially those who participated in the building of Communism, such as:
- Ma Haide (George Hatem) (1910–1988), formerly George Hatem, a doctor and public health official
- Joan Hinton (a former nuclear physicist) and her husband Erwin Engst, who worked in agriculture near Beijing and made significant contributions to the dairy industry
- Sidney Rittenberg, an interpreter, scholar, and former member of the Communist Party of China, who eventually returned to the United States
- Sidney Shapiro, translator of the Chinese classic Water Margin
- Persons of mixed "American" (usually meaning White American) and Chinese descent; see:
- Eurasian (mixed ancestry), people of mixed Asian and European ancestry
- Amerasian
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